Even some of Melania Trump’s biggest fans can admit that she isn’t the most sympathetic person in the world. After all, she is married to a billionaire and was once the First Lady of the United States. Frankly, she has enjoyed a lifetime of fame and fortune that most of us could scarcely ever dream of.
However, Melania’s happily ever after isn’t the fairy tale life most people imagine. The truth is that she has dealt with immense heartbreak and tragedy over time, all of which have shaped her into the successful woman she is today. Don’t believe it? Keep reading to discover the most heartbreaking details about Melania Trump’s life!
Donald Trump allegedly cheated on Melania several times
While she is now worth quite a bit on her own, it’s an open secret that the real source of Melania Trump’s money and influence is her marriage to Donald Trump. It’s a marriage that has taken her far…in fact, it took her right into the White House. But it may not be the happiest marriage because Donald Trump allegedly cheated on Melania multiple times.
Donald Trump allegedly had a prolonged extramarital affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal and may have still been having that affair while Melania was pregnant with Barron. More explosively, Donald allegedly had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels and then paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about it so these details wouldn’t derail his campaign to become president.
Over the years, Donald Trump has repeatedly denied these allegations. At this point, though, the headlines alone have likely been keeping Melania Trump awake at night, year after year.
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Melania Trump had an awful childhood
If those allegations about Donald Trump cheating on her repeatedly are true, you might be wondering why Melania Trump would stay with him. However, she has a pretty powerful incentive: even beyond the wealth and fame that marriage to the man entails, Melania will always be grateful to Donald for rescuing her from her old life.
Melania was born in Yugoslavia and had a pretty awful childhood: her mom worked at a textile factory and her dad was a traveling car salesman whose job meant Melania never really got to see him. Speaking of her dad, his open Communist beliefs always threatened to put the family in the government’s crosshairs. The family lived in a crappy apartment with factory smoke all around, but after Melania became a model and hooked up with Donald Trump, he reportedly made her the ultimate promise: that she would never have to go back home if she didn’t want to.
Melania’s naughty photos were leaked to the world
Before she married a billionaire, Melania Trump was a beautiful model just trying to make a name for herself. Eventually, that meant doing what so many models before her had done: getting naked on camera. She did nude photos for a French magazine named Max in 1996 and never had any reason to suspect that the photoshoot would come back to haunt her.
Fast-forward two decades: Melania is now married to Donald Trump, a man who wants to become President of the United States. He had made a number of salacious comments about women in the past, and because of that–or perhaps because they just wanted to make a quick buck–The New York Post published the nude photos, images which quickly went viral.
Reportedly, Melania hated these photos getting leaked, but she was caught between a rock and a hard place. Some of her political opponents and even general audiences seemed to believe that if she didn’t want to be slut-shamed like this that she shouldn’t have married someone who constantly shames other women.
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Was she threatened with divorce over baby weight?
One of the hallmarks of Donald Trump is that he will say the craziest things, and it’s an open question as to whether he is telling a joke or being serious. As reported by The Washington Post, a great example of this is when Donald was discussing Melania’s pregnancy weight with shock jock radio host Howard Stern. “You know, Howard, she’s got the kind of a body and makeup where, about one day after the baby, it’s going to be the same as it was before,” Trump said. When Stern asked if the other man was serious, Trump replied “I think I’ll give her a week.”
Trump later claimed that he was only joking, of course, but some insiders have claimed that he was deadly serious and that he body-shamed Melania into losing that extra weight ASAP. Worse, he allegedly blamed all of this on Melania’s desire to have a child.
Dealing with major kidney issues
One of the great ironies about Melania Trump is that despite being a household name, she is a notoriously private individual. That is why there is still a great mystery about a 2018 incident where she was hospitalized due to kidney issues. All we really know is that she underwent embolization, a procedure that is often used to treat aneurysms and tumors.
On top of that, Melania stayed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for several days, much longer than the normal embolization patient. She has never really spoken about the details of this procedure or why she did it, but it seems the former FLOTUS may have some major health issues on top of everything else.
Is it any wonder she seems less than keen about returning to the White House?
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